ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL (2016)

ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL (2016)

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl are small time heroes working their way through their days hoping for a big time break, when it finally comes in the form of a lucrative  corporate contract that they're offered after a video of them goes viral.

Along the way, they learn that with great power comes great excess, most big time superheroes are pretty much dickheads whose sole superpower seems to be arrogance, and that truth and justice aren't really all that marketable.

When a powerful enemy reveals itself with connections to the female duo's past, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl must work past their differences and figure out that teamwork and friendship are the most powerful gadgets a superhero can have in their arsenal. 

Having been born in 1974, I actually have fairly vivid memories of Saturday mornings spent in front of the TV enjoying the deliciously trippy KROFTT SUPERSHOW, the original venue of the 1970s incarnation of ELECTRA WOMAN & DYNA GIRL (I must admit that I was more of a WONDER BUG fan at the time.  I mean, how do ya top a magic flying hot rod dune buggy?  I repeat: a fucking flying dune buggy.  I rest my case.)

I also seem to remember the weird nostalgia movement amongst members of my generation.....it's incredibly weird to refer to my peers and contemporaries as a past generation. ..but, anyways...certain members of Generation X embraced the Sid and Marty Kroftt stuff.  It always seemed to be said members who had crazy ideas about becoming nuevo hippies.  Y'know. ...the cats that decided to become Deadheads until Garcia died....then they just started following Phish. A lot of weird dudes and chicks wearing Sleestak t shirts at concerts and clubs.  You catch my drift.....

There was a previous attempt at reviving the property,  in the form of a busted TV pilot starring Markie Post (whom I always found adorable during her NIGHT COURT days) that was produced in 2001 (that's actually pretty funny, and available on YouTube for those wishing to seek it out).  It seems every few years someone is trying to inject new energy into the Kroftt shows, the terrible LAND OF THE LOST film from a few years ago being testament to that.

Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart turn in decent performances, but the plot is fairly hackneyed and formula and the humor comes off as stiff and slightly unfunny. It plays like a TV movie of the week, not a production geared toward reigniting interest in a 40 plus year old piece of pop culture nonsense.   For a better attempt at this kinda humor,  check out the live action THE TICK starring Patrick Warburton from around 2001 or the earlier busted pilot I mentioned above.